Michael Schur Quotes

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.

Seven national crimes: 1. I don't think. 2. I don't know. 3. I don't care. 4. I am too busy. 5. I leave well enough alone. 6. I have no time to read and find out. 7. I am not interested.

Beulah, peel me a grape

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.

I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've got trout in the river, an organic vegetable garden, I've got my work 40 yards from my home. I don't mind being criticised, but where are they criticising from? Which hut are they criticising me from, exactly?

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency.

I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

If you start to find that kind of luxury as a normal thing, you don't belong in the real world.

When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.

There is so much that people take for granted.

We are fixed with every convenience, long desks, easy revolving chairs, footstools, plenty of servants and no specific work to be done.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but [Calvin] Coolidge only snores.

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.